heretog
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heretog
Where it comes from
From Middle English heretogh, heretoȝe, from Old English heretoga, heretoha (“commander, general”), from Proto-West Germanic *harjatogō, equivalent to here (“army”) + tog. Doublet of heretoga (borrowed from Old English) and herzog (borrowed from the German cognate Herzog (“duke”)).
The form likely did not naturally survive in daily use (an expected descendant from dialect may be *heretow), but was revived by scholars.
noun heretogs · heretoch
- The leader or commander of an army in Saxon times.
- A marshal in Anglo-Saxon times In the time of our Saxon ancestors, as appears from Edward the Confessor’s laws, the military force of this kingdom was in the hands of the dukes or heretochs, who were constituted through every province and county in the kingdom.
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